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Make the "Experimental edit check. For testing purposes only." message localizable
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Related to T422835. The "Experimental edit check. For testing purposes only." message in EditCheck is not localizable. When it is (accidentally) displayed to real users, they might be confused even more. Especially if an English-only message appears in a RTL wiki (like arwiki), as it does now. Can we make this message localizable?

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Restricted Application added a subscriber: alaa. · View Herald TranscriptApr 9 2026, 2:43 PM

I think the only problem is accidentally showing it to users.

I think that our intention when making it was that there wasn't a situation where it should ever be shown to a real user who hasn't done some quite-difficult things to opt in to seeing it. I.e. any situation where someone sees it and doesn't know what it is should be treated as a bug to be fixed. (This is also why it's a big ugly piece of bright red text.)

i.e. we could, but should we?